Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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