Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFour sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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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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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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