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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
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
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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 grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
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
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
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
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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
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
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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
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 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
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
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
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble

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