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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
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
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom

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