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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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