We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESomething of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Within 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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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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