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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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