It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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 give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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