The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPartial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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