Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEActivity and sadness are incompatible.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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