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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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