There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA 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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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