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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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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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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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