"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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"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.“
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"When all else is lost, the future still remains."
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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
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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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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
-Khalil Gibran
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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