When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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