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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
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
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature

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