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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
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
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success

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