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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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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Company Compose Depend
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
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason

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