Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice dignity is worth reposing on truth.
William Rounseville Alger
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Rounseville Alger
Pride
Worth
Truth
May
Fortified
Reserve
Reserves
Ice
Dignity
More quotes by William Rounseville Alger
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.
William Rounseville Alger
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
William Rounseville Alger
Keep your working power at its maximum.
William Rounseville Alger
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.
William Rounseville Alger
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
William Rounseville Alger
Public opinion is a second conscience.
William Rounseville Alger
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
William Rounseville Alger
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.
William Rounseville Alger
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William Rounseville Alger
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
William Rounseville Alger
The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
William Rounseville Alger
False eloquence is exaggeration true eloquence is emphasis.
William Rounseville Alger
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.
William Rounseville Alger
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
William Rounseville Alger
Polite beggary is too common.
William Rounseville Alger
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
William Rounseville Alger
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
William Rounseville Alger
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
William Rounseville Alger
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
William Rounseville Alger
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
William Rounseville Alger
