Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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 heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens 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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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