A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECommon sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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