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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lov...  
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in ...  
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the ...  
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded t...  
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to anoth...  
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary exp...  
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of f...  
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.   Government
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.  
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.  
Fate loves the fearless.  
Folks never understand the folks they hate.  
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.  
Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness compo...   Nature
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character...  
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime ...  
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the onl...  
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.  
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easie...  
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.  
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.  
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal...  
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in...  
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as i...  
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes har...  
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to b...  
Light is the symbol of truth.  
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp t...  
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.  
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.  
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conf...  
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.  
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easi...  
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for ...  
Sorrow is the great idealizer.  
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do ...  
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.  
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.  
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.  
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is ...  
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.  
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bend...  
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument ava...  
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer...  
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a...  
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius ...  
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and ...  
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.  
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be...  
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry ove...  
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and be...  
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for ...  
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a...  
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.