A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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