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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
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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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
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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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk

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