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| The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The sufferers parade their miseries, tear lint from their bruises, reveal their indictable crimes, that you may pity them. They like sickness, because physical pain will extort some show of interest from bystanders, as we have seen children, who, finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough till they choke, to draw attention. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. | | Success and Failure | | |
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| There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. | | Uncategorized | | |
