A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
youth find laugh face
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
soul body
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true
danger true nightmares
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
marriage age moving
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say
people music young hear voices
There is one thing that matters to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
people words minds thing
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
leisure soul losing
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.
wild grow flowers minds
Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
faults forgive friends fault social cure
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know
men death fear friends good wise ignorance thinking
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
complain acquaintances
I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
forgive friends find dying amusing
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
growing process friend
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
ecstasy brains
amusement touch love
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