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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEToo much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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