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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcessive 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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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