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» They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

» Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

» Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

» Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

» Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

» A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

» Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

» Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

» Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

» Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

» We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

» Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

» 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.

» As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

» Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

» 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.

» It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

» When all else is lost, the future still remains.

» We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

» The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

» Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

» In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

» Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

» Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

» Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

» There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

» No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

» We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

» Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

» Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

» Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

» A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

» Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

» The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

» Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

» The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

» Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

» In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

» Our first and last love is self-love.

» The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

» Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

» The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

» The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

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