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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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