No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECourage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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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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