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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
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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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
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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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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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Company Compose Depend
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall

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