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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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