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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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
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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset

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