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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
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
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
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
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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

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