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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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