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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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He 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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World

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