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Winter is the night of vegetation.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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 our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
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
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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

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