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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
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
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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

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