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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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