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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself 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
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
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
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself

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