There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPartial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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