The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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