The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFalse 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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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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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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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