Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFalse friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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 greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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