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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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