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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
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
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth

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