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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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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
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
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 loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
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
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself

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