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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
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 heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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
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
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
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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
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
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness

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