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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPartial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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