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It is remarkable that persons of sensitively-nervous organization are the very persons who are capable of forcing themselves […] into the performance of acts of the most audacious courage.

In one state of a man’s mind, his conscience is the severest judge that can pass sentence on him. In another state, he and his conscience are on the best possible terms with each other in the comfortable capacity of accomplices.

In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.