The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe 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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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