Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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