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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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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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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.
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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
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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction

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