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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
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
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
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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 some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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
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
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
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
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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
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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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

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