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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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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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
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
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe

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