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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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