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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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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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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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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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Words of love are works of love.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and 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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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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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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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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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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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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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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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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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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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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