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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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 passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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