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“Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.”
“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.”
“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.”
“I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.”
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
“Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.”
“Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.”
“No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.”
“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.”
“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”
“Art and science have their meeting point in method.”
“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.”
“Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.”
“The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.”
“What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.”
“What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.”