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A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief. - [Critics] Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith. - [Courage] Curiosity is a little more than another name for hope. - [Curiosity] He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly. - [Fools] Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action. - [Heroism] Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. - [Knowledge] Knowledge partakes of infinity; it widens with our capacities: the higher we mount in it, the vaster and more magnificent are the prospects it stretches out before us. - [Knowledge] Languages are the barometers of national thought and character. - [Language] Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. - [Vice] Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. - [Mountains] Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him; and, on the other hand, it would portray a sorry want of faith to distrust a friend because he laughs at you. Few men, I believe, are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at. - [Friends] Nothing in the world is lawless except a slave. - [Slavery] Oratory may be symbolized by a warrior's eye, flashing from under a philosopher's brow. But why a warrior's eye rather than a poet's? Because in oratory the will must pre dominate. - [Oratory] Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. - [Poetry] Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other. - [Wealth] Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine, of honor. - [Honor] Smiles are the language of love. - [Smiles] Song is the tone of feeling. * * * If song, however, be the tone of feeling, what is beautiful singing? The balance of feeling, not the absence of it. - [Songs] The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process. - [Knowledge] The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so. - [Independence] The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. - [Lying] To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking. - [Talking] To those whose god is honor, disgrace alone is sin. - [Honor] Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. - [Wit] A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. - Guesses at Truth [Christianity] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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