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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
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
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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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
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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk

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