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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
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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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
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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
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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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
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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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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