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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.

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
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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
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
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
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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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window

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