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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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