Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWeakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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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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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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