"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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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.“
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"When all else is lost, the future still remains."
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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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"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
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"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it."
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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
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