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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
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
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
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
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
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
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction

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