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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
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
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
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
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
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
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
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk

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