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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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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Company Compose Depend
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
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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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence

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