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 BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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