Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWeakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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An 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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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