A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its ...

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds ...

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there ...

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every ...

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

There is a sacredness in tears

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

The oil and wine of merry meeting.

They who drink beer will think beer.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

Enthusiasts soon understand each other.

Too young for woe, though not for tears.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

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