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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.”
“The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.”
“Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.”
“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
“The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.”
“Our first and last love is self-love.”
“A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.”
“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”
“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.”
“Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.”
“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”
“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”
“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.”
“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”
“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.”
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”