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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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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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