Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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 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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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