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Silence never yet betrayed any one! - [Silence] Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. - [Thought] Tenderness is the infancy of love. - [Tenderness] That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart. - [Solitude] The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. - [Vice] The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion. - [Will] The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. - [Mischief] The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy. - [Modesty] The monuments of mutability. - [Ruins] The most Civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. - [Civilization] The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals. - [Egotism] The stampede of our self-possession. - [Panic] The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. - [Gossip] The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself. - [Devotion] The world is governed by love,--self-love. - [Self-love] There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one. - [Flirting] There is even the dignity of vice. - [Dignity] There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit. - [Wit] To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. - [Ingratitude] To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. - [Reverie] True felicity consists of its own consciousness. - [Felicity] Vices are often habits rather than passions. - [Vice] Women read each other at a single glance. - [Eyes] Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it. - [Wrong] Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration. - [Youth] Displaying page 2 of 3 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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