Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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