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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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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 nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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