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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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