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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law

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