A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHe 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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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