Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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