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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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
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
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
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
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall

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