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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War

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