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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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