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Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand

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