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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
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
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
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
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom

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