Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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