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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
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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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
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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
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
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself

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