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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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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
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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 heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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 our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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
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 probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
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
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
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
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare

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