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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
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
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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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Charity Money Stand
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
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
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
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
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
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
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
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
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

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