All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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False 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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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