No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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