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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
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
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress

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