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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
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
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music

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