Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAll men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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