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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us. - [Circumstance] It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them. - [Self-reliance] It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons. - [Evil] It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. - [Kisses] It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed. - [Society] It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away. - [Charity] It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth. - [Commerce] Justice, not the majority, should rule. - [Majority] Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. - [Kindness] Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues. - [Friendship] Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness. - [Love] Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words. - [Love] Luminous quotations atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment. - [Quotations] Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison. - [Deceit] Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. - [Children] Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising. - [Matrimony] Melancholy sees the worst of things,--things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull. - [Melancholy] Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. - [Deceit] Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud. - [Merit] Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. - [Mind] Mortal beauty stings while it delights. - [Beauty] Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability. - [Books] Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do. - [Motive] Music is the fourth great material want of our natures,--first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. - [Music] Nations, like individuals are powerful in the degree that they command the sympathies of their neighbors. - [Nation] Displaying page 4 of 9 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9
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