It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo 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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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