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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
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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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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
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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word

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