A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAn 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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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