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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.

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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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