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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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 small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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 sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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