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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. - [Friendship] A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers. - [Books] A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls, by its own corruption, to decay. - [Government] A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. - [Chastity] A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. - [Delight] "Agriculture, for an honorable and high-minded man," says Xenophon, "is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living." - [Agriculture] Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. - [Civilization] Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. - [Conversation] Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity. - [Conversation] Debate is masculine; conversation feminine. - [Conversation] Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. - [Dignity] Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. - [Education] Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. - [Conversation] Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. - [Enthusiasm] Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. - [Equanimity] Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. - [Experience] Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. - [Manners] First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. - [Example] Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. - [Friends] Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds. - [Friendship] Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. - [Genius] Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements. - [Conversation] Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. - [Good Humor] Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. - [Moderation] Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. - [Sleep] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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