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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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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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
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
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
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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
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
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
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

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