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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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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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