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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect

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