Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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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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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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