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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
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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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
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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Alone Communication Kind Man Time

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