Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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