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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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