Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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