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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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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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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning

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