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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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
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
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

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