Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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 our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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