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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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