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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
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
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain

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