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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
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
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
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
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
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
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

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