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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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