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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhat we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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