The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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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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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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