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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
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
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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
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
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Existence Fire Forget Passion Season

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