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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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Bold Man Ourselves Past
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
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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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word

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