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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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