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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
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
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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

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