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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
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
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
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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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success

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