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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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