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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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
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
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
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
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
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity

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