The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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