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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight

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