Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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 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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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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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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