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Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World

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