Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEActivity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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