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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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