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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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
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
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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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 loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size

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