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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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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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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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