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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
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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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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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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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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

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