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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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