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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. - [Forgiveness] The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury. - [Valor] The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding. - [Sorrow] There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. - [Delicacy] There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns. - [Rebellion] There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking. - [Charity] There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental. - [Evil] There is nothing sooner overthrown a weak head than opinion of authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass. - [Authority] There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. - [Chastity] Thinking nurseth thinking. - [Thought] Thou blind man's mark; thou fool's self-chosen snare, Fond fancy's scum, and dregs of scatter'd thoughts; Band of all evils; cradle of causeless care; Thou web of ill, whose end is never wrought; Desire! Desire! I have too, dearly bought With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware, Too long, too long, asleep thou hast me brought, Who shouldst my mind to higher things prepare. - [Desire] To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory end perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, of place, of ceremonial respects and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court. - [Ambition] To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. - [Endurance] True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative. - [Bravery] Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity. - [Truth] Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood. - [Ungratefulness] Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. - [Desire] Valor is abased by too much loftiness. - [Valor] Vice is but a nurse of agonies. - [Vice] We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. - [Servitude] Weigh not so much what men say, as what they prove; remembering that truth is simple and naked, and needs not invective to apparel her comeliness. - [Truth] What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living. - [Wisdom] What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? - [Ancestry : Birth] What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine! - [Secrecy] Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries. - [Valor] Displaying page 6 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8
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