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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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 heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play

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