The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Wit, 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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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