Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEELike the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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