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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
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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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet

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