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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
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.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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