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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
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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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
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
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man

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