The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A 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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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There 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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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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