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A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. - Guesses at Truth [Compliments] Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival. - Guesses at Truth [Faults] Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head. - Guesses at Truth [Ireland] Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain. - Guesses at Truth [Acting] Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. - Guesses at Truth [Courage] Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. - Guesses at Truth [Friendship] Friendship is Love, without either flowers or veil. - Guesses at Truth [Friendship] In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us light. - Guesses at Truth [Christ] Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. - Guesses at Truth [Jealousy] Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. - Guesses at Truth [Literature] Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault? - Guesses at Truth [Criticism] Science sees signs; Poetry the thing signified. - Guesses at Truth [Symbols] Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them. - Guesses at Truth [God] The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. - Guesses at Truth [Death] The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow. - Guesses at Truth [Sympathy] The greatest truths are the simplest: and so are the greatest men. - Guesses at Truth [Simplicity] The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. - Guesses at Truth [Mind] The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. - Guesses at Truth [Will] We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues. - Guesses at Truth [Friends] He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven. - Guesses at Truth (p. 444) [Evil] The first step to all self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain any kind of knowledge, except by a like process. - Guesses at Truth (p. 454) [Knowledge] I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections. - Guesses at Truth (p. 458) [Books] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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