Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach, we are never satisfied.

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.

Fame comes only when deserved and then is as inevitable as destiny for it is destiny.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny for it is destiny.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed

    Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

    Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.

    Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.

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