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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play

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