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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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