Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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