To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEELife is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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 most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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 greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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