Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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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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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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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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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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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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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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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
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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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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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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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