It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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