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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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