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Colors are the smiles of nature.
Improvement is nature.
Poetry is the breath of beauty.
Patience and gentleness is power.
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
One can love any man that is generous.
Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.
Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.
This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
