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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
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
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman

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