Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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