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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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