Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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