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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESomething of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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