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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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