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 BOVEEAll men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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