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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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