A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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