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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
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
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
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
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
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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
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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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
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
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
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
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
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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