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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
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
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
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
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
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
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
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
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
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
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
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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

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