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A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief. - [Critics] Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith. - [Courage] Curiosity is a little more than another name for hope. - [Curiosity] He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly. - [Fools] Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action. - [Heroism] Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. - [Knowledge] Knowledge partakes of infinity; it widens with our capacities: the higher we mount in it, the vaster and more magnificent are the prospects it stretches out before us. - [Knowledge] Languages are the barometers of national thought and character. - [Language] Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. - [Mountains] Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him; and, on the other hand, it would portray a sorry want of faith to distrust a friend because he laughs at you. Few men, I believe, are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at. - [Friends] Oratory may be symbolized by a warrior's eye, flashing from under a philosopher's brow. But why a warrior's eye rather than a poet's? Because in oratory the will must pre dominate. - [Oratory] Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine, of honor. - [Honor] The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so. - [Independence] The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. - [Lying] To those whose god is honor, disgrace alone is sin. - [Honor] A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. - Guesses at Truth [Christianity] A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. - Guesses at Truth [Compliments] Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival. - Guesses at Truth [Faults] Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head. - Guesses at Truth [Ireland] Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain. - Guesses at Truth [Acting] Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. - Guesses at Truth [Courage] Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. - Guesses at Truth [Friendship] Friendship is Love, without either flowers or veil. - Guesses at Truth [Friendship] In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us light. - Guesses at Truth [Christ] Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. - Guesses at Truth [Jealousy] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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