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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name

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