Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAn eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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