He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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