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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDifficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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 passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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