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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
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
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
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
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
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
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
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
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
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule

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