Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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