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Shame is the dying embers of virtue. - [Shame] Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. - [Contentment] Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered. - [Silence] Silence never makes any blunders. - [Silence] Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners. - [Society] Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance. - [Stupidity] Success covers a multitude of blunders. - [Success] Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time. - [Success] Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple. - [Authorship] Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with. - [Quacks] Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. - [Selfishness] Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. - [Tears] The books are balanced in heaven, not here. - [Justice] The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. - [Age] The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. - [Procrastination] The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. - [World] The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it. - [Courage] The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. - [Happiness] The soul has more diseases than the body. - [Soul] The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate. - [Pity] The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment. - [Judgment] Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. - [Practice] There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. - [Trouble] There is a significant Latin proverb, to wit, Who will guard the guards? - [Vigilance] There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. - [Ugliness] Displaying page 4 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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