Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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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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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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