Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMusic is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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