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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!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
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
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
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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
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
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
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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