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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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