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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 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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
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
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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

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