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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
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
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World

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