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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
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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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
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
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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
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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
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
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
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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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall

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