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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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