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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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
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
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
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

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