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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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