The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDifficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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