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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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 sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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

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