What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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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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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.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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