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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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