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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
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
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
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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

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