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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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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Charity Money Stand
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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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
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
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
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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