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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
William Rounseville Alger
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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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.
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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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Polite beggary is too common.
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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
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Words of love are works of love.
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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Keep your working power at its maximum.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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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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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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