There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEconomy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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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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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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