A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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