There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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