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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning

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