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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
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
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom

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