We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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