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The passions are like fire

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. Christian Nestell Bovee

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The chief happiness

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. Samuel Johnson

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