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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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
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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves

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