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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
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
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing

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