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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
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
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
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
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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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