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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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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.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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