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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
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
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
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
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
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
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
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
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
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
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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare

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