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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
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
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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
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
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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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Charity Money Stand

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