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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
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
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
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

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