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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William Rounseville Alger
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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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False eloquence is exaggeration true eloquence is emphasis.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
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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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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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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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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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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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Courage makes a man more than himself for he is then himself plus his valor.
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Keep your working power at its maximum.
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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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Polite beggary is too common.
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The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
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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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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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