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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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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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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
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
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
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
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
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
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking

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