We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere 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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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 ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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