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