A book should be luminous not voluminous.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPartial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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