Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPartial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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 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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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