Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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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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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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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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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