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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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
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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