When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithout death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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