In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHow 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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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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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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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