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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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
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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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
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
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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