There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe 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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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 sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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