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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
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
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
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 all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain

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