There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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