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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present
The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.