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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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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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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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
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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Charity Money Stand
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play

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