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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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
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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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

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