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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Genius—the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)