Hope is the best part of our riches.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEToo much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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.
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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