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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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