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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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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens 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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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