Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo 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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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