"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."
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"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
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"The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us."
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"Paradise is always where love dwells."
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"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
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"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
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"A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom."
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"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
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"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."
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"Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?"
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"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."
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"In women everything is heart, even the head."
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"The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace."
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"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers."
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"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."
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"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."
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"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."
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"Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life."
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"Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell."
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"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
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