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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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
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
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
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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
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
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
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
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
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves

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