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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
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
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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

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