We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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 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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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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