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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
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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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves

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