In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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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.
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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 obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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