Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithin the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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