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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
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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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War

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