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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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