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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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