Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating 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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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