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William Rounseville Alger
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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A blue eye is a true eye Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
William Rounseville Alger
The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
William Rounseville Alger
Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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Keep your working power at its maximum.
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God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
William Rounseville Alger
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
William Rounseville Alger
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
William Rounseville Alger
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
William Rounseville Alger
Courage makes a man more than himself for he is then himself plus his valor.
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False eloquence is exaggeration true eloquence is emphasis.
William Rounseville Alger
He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
William Rounseville Alger
