Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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