It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMusic is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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