Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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 failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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 small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble 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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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