Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA 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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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