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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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Depend Fame Truth Word
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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Better Development Law Progress Society
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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
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
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
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
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity

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