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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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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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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.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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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 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.
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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.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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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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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.
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