Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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 are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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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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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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