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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
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
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
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong

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