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The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. - [Familiarity] The man at the head of the house can mar the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it; that must rest with the woman, and it is her great privilege. - [Domesticity] The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander. - [Self-control] The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. - [War] The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon. - [Passion] The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. - [Enthusiasm] The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. - [Vice] The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it. - [Success] There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has but one talent for a genius. - [Genius] To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living. - [Improvement] Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. - [Toleration] We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. - [Weakness] We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte. - [Argument] Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering. - [Wisdom] Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. - [Kindness] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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