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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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