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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success

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