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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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 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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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