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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow

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