A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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 nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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