It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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