Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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