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

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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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Charity Money Stand
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
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
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.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste

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