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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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Words of love are works of love.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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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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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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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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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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