Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFew minds wear out; more rust out.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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