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Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter. - [Apologies] As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. - [Success] As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. - [Money] As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief. - [Sorrow] At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists. - [Peace] Be thine own privy counsellor. - [Secrecy] Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. - [Beauty] Beauty can inspire miracles. - [Beauty] Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. - [Candor] Change is constant in a progressive country. - [Change] Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant. - at Edinburgh [Change] Characters never change. Opinions alter,--characters are only developed. - [Character] Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. - [Christianity] Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. - [Neighbors] Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet. - [Coquette] Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. - [Courage] Curran's favorite mode of meditation was with his violin in his hand; for hours together would he forget himself, running voluntaries over the strings, while his imagination, collecting its tones, was opening all his faculties for the coming emergency at the bar. - [Music] Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular. - [Custom] Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. - [Debt] Despair is the conclusion of fools. - [Despair] Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. - [Destiny] Destiny is our will, and our will is nature. - [Destiny] Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. - [Eloquence] England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation. - [England] Enthusiasm is the breath of genius. - [Enthusiasm] Displaying page 2 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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