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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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.
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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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