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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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