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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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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Better Development Law Progress Society
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave

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