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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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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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