Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn 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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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