Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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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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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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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