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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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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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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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