The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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