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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
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 small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
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
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
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
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule

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