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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
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
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
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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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
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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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner

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