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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
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
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
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

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