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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
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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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
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

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