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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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