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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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