The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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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 ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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