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

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Character Observation Person Smile
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
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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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
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
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young

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