Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit, 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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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