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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
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
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
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
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
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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