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Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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 cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking

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