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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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