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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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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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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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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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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk

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