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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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