Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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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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