Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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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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