Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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