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Ambition itself is not so reckless of human life as ennui; clemency is a favorite attribute of the former; but ennui has the taste of a cannibal. - [Ennui] Avarice is the vice of declining years. - [Avarice] Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. - [Beauty] Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul. - [Beauty] By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. - [Hair] Commerce defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone. - [Commerce] Conscience is the mirror of our souls which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. - [Conscience] Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God Himself, were it possible. - [Dishonesty] Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with immortality. - [History] Ennui is an expressive word invented in France. - [Ennui] Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. - [Ennui] Falsehood and death are synonymous. - [Falsehood] Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth. - [Government] It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, God is here, and we knew him not!" - [History] It never was a prosperous world Since priests have interfer'd with temporal matters; The custom of their ancestors they slight, And change their shirts of hair for robes of gold; Thus luxury and interest rule the church, Whilst piety and conscience dwell in caves. - [Clergymen] Notoriety is short-lived; fame is lasting. - [Notoriety] Our land is not more the recipient of the men of all countries than of their ideas. - [Ideas] Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. - [Luxury] The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct. - [Benevolence : Charity] The common mind is the true Parian marble, fit to be wrought into likeness to a god. - [Mind] The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. - [Civilization] The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. - [Fear] The movement of the species is upward. - [Aspiration] The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. - [Prejudice] The public is wiser than the wisest critic. - [Critics] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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