The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere 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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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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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