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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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.
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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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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