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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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 great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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