The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAlas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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 our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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