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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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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

Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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
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 ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
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
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success

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