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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
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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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
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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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
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
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking

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