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Christian Nestell Bovee

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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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 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
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
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
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
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
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
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
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner

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