The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENo man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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