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“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.”
“Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.”
“Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”
“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”
“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”
“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
“Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.”
“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.”
“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”
“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.”
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.”
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.”
“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”
“Live your life and forget your age.”
“There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.”
“Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.”
“As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.”
“It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.”