The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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