An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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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 heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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 most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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 charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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