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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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
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.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge

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