No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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.
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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.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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