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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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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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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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