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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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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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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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