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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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