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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 with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
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
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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
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
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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
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
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
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
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
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness

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