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Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees 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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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness

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