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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.  
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...  
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has ...  
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, in blast-beruffled plume.  
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.  
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly gente...  
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.  
Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, ...  
Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthi...  
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor...  
Fear is the mother of foresight.  
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defendi...  
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passiona...  
Had other aims than my delight.  
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.  
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absenc...  
If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if pe...  
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition mig...   Poetry
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.  
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which i...  
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fas...  
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her...  
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pl...  
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no...  
Once victim, always victim - that's the law!  
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.  
Pessimism... is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at i...  
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, b...  
Some folk want their luck buttered.  
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.  
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike ...  
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to ge...  
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a crit...  
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate f...  
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some m...  
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing somethi...  
Time changes everything except something within us which is always sur...  
Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher ...  
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if...  
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.  
You was a good man, and did good things.