Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhat we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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