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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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