The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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