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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Company Compose Depend
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
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
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
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
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation

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