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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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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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