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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
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
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
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
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
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
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young

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