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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself

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