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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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