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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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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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