A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe 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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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It 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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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