A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPleasure 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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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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