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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity. - [Charity] Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence. - [Silence] Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end. - [Cuckoos] Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. - [Obstinacy] Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it. - [Forgiveness] Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him. - [Inheritance] Sensibility is the power of woman. - [Women] She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass. - [Vanity] She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts. - [Charm] Softness of smile indicates softness of character. - [Smiles] Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. - [Cowards] Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. - [Superstition] The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. - [Piety] The conscience is more wise than science. - [Conscience] The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue. - [Face] The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. - [Knavery] The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. - [Creditors] The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. - [Cruelty] The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human? - [Art] The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he. - [Companions] The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. - [Order] The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. - [Generosity : Heaven] The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. - [Time] The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once. - [Jealousy] The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,--the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. - [Enjoyment] Displaying page 5 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8
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