There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAlas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees 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 greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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