The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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