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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
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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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
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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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
The 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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Better Development Law Progress Society
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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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Charity Money Stand
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote

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