Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDifficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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