It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEActivity and sadness are incompatible.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome 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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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