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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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