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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
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
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
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
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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
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
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young

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