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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
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
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain

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