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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
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

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