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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
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
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
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
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich

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