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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

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
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
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
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
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way

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