We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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 determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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