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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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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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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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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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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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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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking

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