Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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