Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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