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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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