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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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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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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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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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