It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDifficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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