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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Indeed, excessive sensitiveness is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for it is to make more of our objects, and less of ourselves. View quote
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. View quote
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Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. View quote
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. View quote
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. View quote
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. View quote
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. View quote
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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. View quote
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. View quote
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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself. View quote
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"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought. View quote
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There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. View quote
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose. View quote
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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. View quote
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. View quote
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. View quote
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. View quote
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. View quote
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. View quote
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. View quote
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. View quote
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. View quote
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