No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.