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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
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
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
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake

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