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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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