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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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 grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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