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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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