The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECourage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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