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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
The 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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Better Development Law Progress Society
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason

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