Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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