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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
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
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
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

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