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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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