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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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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
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
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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
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
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
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
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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
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
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
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness

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