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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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.
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.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.