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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
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
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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear

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