Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGood 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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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 fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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