The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit, 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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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