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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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