All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating 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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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