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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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
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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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
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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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