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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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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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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

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