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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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