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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
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
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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