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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
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 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
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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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
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
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
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
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired

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