What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDiscretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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.
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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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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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