Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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