Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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