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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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