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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
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 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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
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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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth

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