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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
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
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble

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