Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAn 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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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 most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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