An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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