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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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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Better Development Law Progress Society
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule

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