Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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