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

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
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
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
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
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
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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
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

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