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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
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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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
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
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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom

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