A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe 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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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