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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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