Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPartial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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