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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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