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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
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
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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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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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
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
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing

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