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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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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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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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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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
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight

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