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- Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;…
- When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might…
- Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.
- I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge:…
- Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination…
- It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge…
- If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning,…
- Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
- It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be…
- We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in…
- The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
- Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
- Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
- The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
- Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
- Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
- It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while…
- Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -…
- In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has…
- We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same…
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