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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Within 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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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