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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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