It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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