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William Rounseville Alger
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False eloquence is exaggeration true eloquence is emphasis.
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
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God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
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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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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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Polite beggary is too common.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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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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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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