False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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