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

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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
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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
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
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
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
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success

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