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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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