Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Pleasure 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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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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 great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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