The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGreat warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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