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Wit, 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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Wit, 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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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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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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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 determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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