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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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