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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
William Rounseville Alger
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
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Keep your working power at its maximum.
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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
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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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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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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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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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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
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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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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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