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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
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
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
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
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
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
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
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
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
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
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

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