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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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