The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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