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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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