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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!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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