The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in 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 greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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