Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit, 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.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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