Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExample has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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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 artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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