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 BOVEEHope is the best part of our riches.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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