A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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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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