What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFalse 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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Discretion 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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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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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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