It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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