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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
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
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
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
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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
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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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
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
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
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
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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

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