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

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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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
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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