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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

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
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
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
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
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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Better Development Law Progress Society
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
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
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
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
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
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
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
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
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 mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
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
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past

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