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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
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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Better Development Law Progress Society
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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
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

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