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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
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
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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

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