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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
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
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
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
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe

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