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A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears. - [Charm] A book may be as great a thing as a battle. - [Books] A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. - in a speech [Government] A feat of chivalry, fiery with consummate courage, and bright with flashing vigor. - said of the Charge of the Light Brigade, in the House of Commons [War] A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. - [Friends] A great city whose image dwells on the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; faith hovers over Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world-art. - [Cities] A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation. - [Greatness] A great thing is a great book, but greater than all is the talk of a great man. - [Conversation] A majority is always the best repartee. - [Majority] A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. - [Fate] A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. - [Duty] A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. - [Brevity] A series of congratulatory regrets. - in reference to Lord Harrington's resolution on the Berlin Treaty, July 30, 1878 [Speech] A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. - [Schools] Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. - [Accent] Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - [Action] Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath. - [Age] All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. - [Mystery] All must respect those who respect themselves. - [Self-respect] Amusement to an observing mind is study. - [Study] An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. - [Art] An author can have nothing truly his own but his style. - [Style] An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. - [Authors] An obedient wife commands her husband. - [Obedience] And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style. - [Habit] Displaying page 1 of 12 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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