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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter

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