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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
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
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste

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