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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
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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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
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing

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