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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
William Rounseville Alger
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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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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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Courage makes a man more than himself for he is then himself plus his valor.
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Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency like the dew at dawn and eve.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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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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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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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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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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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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