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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
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

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