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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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