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The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth. - [Truth] The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. - [Gifts] The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze. - [Motive] The miser robs himself. - [Misers] The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of. - [Conceit] The more anyone speaks of himself the less he likes to hear another talked of. - [Egotism] The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint. - [Proverbs] The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy; a still rabies is more dangerous than the paroxysms of a fever. Fear the boisterous savage of passion less than the sedately grinning villain. - [Villainy] The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. - [Obstinacy] The paralysis of the soul. - [Indolence] The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. - [Policy] The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. - [Delay] The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. - [Genius] The proverbial wisdom of the populace at gates, on roads, and in markets instructs the attentive ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged. - [Politics : Proverbs (General)] The prudent sees only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both, diminishes those, makes these preponderate, and conquers. - [Heroes] The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,--cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. - [Friendship] The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form. - [Simplicity] The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. - [Knavery] The worst of faces still is human. - [Face] There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive. - [Man] There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity. - [Smiles] There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. - [Pride] There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth. - [Forgiveness] There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. - [Repose] Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. - [Thinkers] Displaying page 6 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8
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