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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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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich

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