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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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
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
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
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
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge

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