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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFalse friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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