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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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

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