There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithin the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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