The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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