Activity and sadness are incompatible.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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