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Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve. - [Tears] Often most telling and often most unfair; stimulated by want of a juster argument. - [Burlesque] Polite beggary is too common. - [Request] Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - [Proverbs (General)] Public opinion is a second conscience. - [Opinion] Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms. - [Opinion] Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth. - [Reserve] Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny. - [Tears] The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity. - [Blustering] The eyes are the amulets of the mind. - [Eyes] The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance. - [Satiety] The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe. - [God] The heart must glow before the tongue can gild. - [Heart] The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern. - [Heart] The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. - [Benevolence] The most terrible of all things is terror. - [Terror] The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. - [Feeling] There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty. - [Obligation] To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. - [Maxims] True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. - [Statesmen] We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. - [Advice] What is the highest secret of victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. - [Contentment] When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds. - [Science] Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. - [Poetry] Words of love are works of love. - [Love] Displaying page 2 of 3 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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