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• What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their…
• In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…
• Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by…
• The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
• Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
• Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of…
• Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,…
• Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but…
• Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents…
• Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their…
• A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

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