The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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