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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 book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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