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.
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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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