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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. - [Friendship] A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers. - [Books] A good style fits like a good costume. - [Style] A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls, by its own corruption, to decay. - [Government] A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. - [Chastity] A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. - [Delight] "Agriculture, for an honorable and high-minded man," says Xenophon, "is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living." - [Agriculture] Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. - [Civilization] Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams. - [Purity] Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. - [Conversation] Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity. - [Conversation] Debate is masculine; conversation feminine. - [Conversation] Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. - [Dignity] Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. - [Education] Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. - [Conversation] Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. - [Enthusiasm] Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. - [Equanimity] Every sin provokes its punishment. - [Sin] Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. - [Experience] Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. - [Manners] First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. - [Example] Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. - [Friends] Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds. - [Friendship] Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. - [Quiet] Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. - [Genius] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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