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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
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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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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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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 some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
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
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 great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
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

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