• Feelings

  Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

  4.5 · 39 votes · 17 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Bu' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbour as himself if he listened to all the 'Buts' that could be said.

  4.4 · 54 votes · 176 reads

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• Virtues

  Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  4.7 · 61 votes · 150 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

  3.6 · 43 votes · 122 reads

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• Feelings

  Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

  4.6 · 35 votes · 165 reads

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• Virtues

  Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

  3.5 · 42 votes · 116 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

  3.8 · 62 votes · 191 reads

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• Feelings

  Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

  4.5 · 16 votes · 56 reads

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• Society

  Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame, to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

  4.8 · 61 votes · 122 reads

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• Countries

  How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

  3.9 · 12 votes · 84 reads

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• Virtues

  In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

  4.3 · 9 votes · 138 reads

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• Art and Culture

  In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

  4.1 · 21 votes · 21 reads

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• Various

  It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

  3.3 · 46 votes · 49 reads

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• Time

  It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

  3.8 · 23 votes · 91 reads

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• Feelings

  Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  4.9 · 59 votes · 153 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

  4.3 · 59 votes · 129 reads

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• Feelings

  One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  4.7 · 46 votes · 20 reads

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• Virtues

  Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

  3.2 · 27 votes · 92 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

  4.5 · 43 votes · 71 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

  3.7 · 31 votes · 151 reads

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• Nature

  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.

  4.0 · 26 votes · 56 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  3.3 · 29 votes · 140 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

  3.5 · 43 votes · 33 reads

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• Society

  The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes v

  4.9 · 64 votes · 131 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

  3.1 · 11 votes · 188 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The pen is mightier than the sword.

  3.9 · 46 votes · 141 reads

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• Feelings

  The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

  3.1 · 59 votes · 156 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

  3.0 · 39 votes · 138 reads

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• Society

  Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

  4.4 · 8 votes · 27 reads

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• Time

  We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  3.4 · 11 votes · 15 reads

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• Feelings

  We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

  3.5 · 36 votes · 184 reads

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• Feelings

  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.

  4.8 · 8 votes · 62 reads

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• Feelings

  What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

  3.2 · 33 votes · 1 reads

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• Various

  What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

  3.5 · 57 votes · 102 reads

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• Various

  When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

  4.6 · 45 votes · 93 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

  3.6 · 34 votes · 23 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

  3.7 · 51 votes · 5 reads

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• Time

  Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

  3.8 · 42 votes · 124 reads

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