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Aphorisms & Quotes
WISE SAYING. By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.
WISE SAYING. By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.
The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the happiness of others—even of those who injure them. True happiness consists in making happy.
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The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the happiness of others—even of those who injure them. True happiness consists in making happy.
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It is easy to lose important opportunities, and difficult to regain them; therefore when they present themselves it is the more necessary to make every effort to retain them.
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Shall He to thee His aid refuse
Who clothes the swan in dazzling white,
Who robes in green the parrot bright,
The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?*
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By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.
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All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her.
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Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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If a man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greater of conquerors.*
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To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
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Everything that is acknowledges the blessing of existence. Shalt not thou, by a similar acknowledgment, be happy? If thou pay due attention to sounds, thou shalt hear the praise of the Creator celebrated by the whole creation.
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It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world: he would seem to belong to a different species.
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To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow;
Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow:
O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee;
Make not too sure another breath to borrow.
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The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
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Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.
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In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.
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Much like a subtle spider which doth sit
In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide;
If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,
She feels it instantly on every side.:
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A prisoner was brought before a police magistrate. He looked around and discovered that his clerk was absent. 'Here, officer,' he said, 'what's this man charged with?'
'Bigotry, your Honor,' replied the policeman. 'He's got three wives.'
The magistrate looked at the officer as though astounded at such ignorance. 'Why, officer,' he said, 'that's not bigotrythat's trigonometry.'
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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
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