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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPleasure 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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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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 the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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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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