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 BOVEEActivity and sadness are incompatible.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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