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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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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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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing

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