Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA 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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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