Bittern Quotes by William Rounseville Alger

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• The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
• Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
• The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and…
• After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be…
• Public opinion is a second conscience.
• A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
• Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
• To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which…
• What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
• The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

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