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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!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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 beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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