Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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