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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
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
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
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
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
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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
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

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