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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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