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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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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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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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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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