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  ...what grace is to the beauty.--DEGERANDO.
Weak men often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive a certain susceptibility, delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.--GREVILLE.
Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit.--ACHILLES POINCELOT.
DELUSION.--Delusions, like dreams, are dispelled by our awaking to the stern realities of life.--A.R.C. DALLAS. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. --BOVEE.
We are always living under some delusion, and instead of taking things as they are, and making the best of them, we follow an ignis fatuus, and lose, in its pursuit, the joy we might attain.--JAMES ELLIS.
DESPAIR.--It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.--JEREMY TAYLOR.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.--BEACONSFIELD.
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model.--SOUTH.
Despair is infidelity...   Bovee, Christian Nevell

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