Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen 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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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 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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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