In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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