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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFour sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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