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• Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.

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  Fighting, Imagination, Enemy

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• Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

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  Feelings, Religion, Matter

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• I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

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  Knowing, Evil, Desire

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• It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

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  Men, Numbers, Facts

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• To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

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  Nature, Journey, Garden

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• It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

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  Resources, Thrown

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• Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

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  Success, Mind, Gimlets

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• At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

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  Sarcasm, Mind, Irony

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

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• Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

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  Beautiful, Power, Risk

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

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• Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

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  Passion, Kissing, Heaven

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

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  Yield, Mistress, Favors

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• Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

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  Miracle, Christ, Stills

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• None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

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  Love, Heart, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

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  Past, Emotion

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