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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward

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