Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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