The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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