Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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