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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear

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