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 BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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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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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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