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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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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet

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