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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William Rounseville Alger
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
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False eloquence is exaggeration true eloquence is emphasis.
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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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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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The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
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A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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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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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 lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
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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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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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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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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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Words of love are works of love.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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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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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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