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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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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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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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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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