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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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