Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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