It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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