Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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