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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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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

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