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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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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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