Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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