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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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