Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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 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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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