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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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