An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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