We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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 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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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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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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