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Fear is the mother of foresight. - [Fear] He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. - [Generosity] No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. - [Listening] Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love. - [Disappointment] Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money. - [Extravagance] The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. - [Money] The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep. - [Money] When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. - [Generosity] Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition even of this quality, is but a form of self-love. - [Ambition] I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting. - Philip Van Artevelde (act I, sc. 2) [Words] The world knows nothing of its greatest men. - Philip Van Artevelde (act I, sc. 5) [Greatness] He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them. - Philip Van Artevelde (pt. I, act I, sc. 5) [Mourning : Time] We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand: For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore. - Philip Van Artevelde (pt. I, act I, sc. 5) [Fancy] An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. - Philip Van Artevelde (pt. I, act I, sc. 5, l. 88) [Light] Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lighting, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. - Philip Van Artevelde (pt. I, act I, sc. 7) [Character : Influence]
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