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William Rounseville Alger
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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.
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A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
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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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Courage makes a man more than himself for he is then himself plus his valor.
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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Words of love are works of love.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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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 hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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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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Keep your working power at its maximum.
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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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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
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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 human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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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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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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