Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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