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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
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 give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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