Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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