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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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