Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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