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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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