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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. - [Crowd] A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets. - [Fancy] A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a spring. - [Contrast] A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. - [Castles in the Air] Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. - [Apothegms] Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. - [Apothegms] Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities. - [Common Sense] Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor. - [Courage] Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. - [Cunning] False eloquence is exaggeration, true eloquence is emphasis. - [Eloquence] Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. - [Fate] God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. - [Gifts] He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. - [Happiness] He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any. - [Opinion] Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire. - [Desire] I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand. - [Friendship] Keep your working power at its maximum. - [Industry] Laws are the silent assessors of God. - [Law] Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. - [Anger] Often most telling and often most unfair; stimulated by want of a juster argument. - [Burlesque] Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - [Proverbs (General)] Public opinion is a second conscience. - [Opinion] Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms. - [Opinion] The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity. - [Blustering] The eyes are the amulets of the mind. - [Eyes] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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