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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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“Agriculture, for an honorable and high-minded man,” says Xenophon, “is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.”
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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,—by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,—becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Genius—the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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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)