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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 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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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law

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