We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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