We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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