The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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