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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEActivity and sadness are incompatible.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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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 beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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