Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHe 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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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