False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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