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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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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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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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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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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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False eloquence is exaggeration true eloquence is emphasis.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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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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A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
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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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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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Words of love are works of love.
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