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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
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
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
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
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
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
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe

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