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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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
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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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way