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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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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 loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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
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
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior

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