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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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
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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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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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
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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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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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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
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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