Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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