In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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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 great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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