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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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