In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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