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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
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
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
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 determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
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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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning

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