We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in 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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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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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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