Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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