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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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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
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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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
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature

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