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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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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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