A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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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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