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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon 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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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