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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
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
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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
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
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet

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