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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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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Better Development Law Progress Society
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
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward

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