No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe 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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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