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Whenever you look at human nature in masses, you find every truth met by a counter truth, and both equally true.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished; but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism: never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A man or a woman may be highly irritable, and yet be sweet, tender, gentle, loving, sociable, kind, charitable, thoughtful for others, unselfish, generous.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Cervantes speaks of potted wisdom of "short sentences drawn long experience."
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
In extent sorrow is boundless,—it pours from ten million sources, and floods the world; but its depth is small,—it drowns few.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can’t do it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Many men’s thoughts are not acorns, but merely pebbles.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
You have only to watch other ill-natured people to resolve to be unlike them.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A successful career has been full of blunders.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Emulation and imitation are of twin birth.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Heavy sorrow is silent, and the deepest mourning is the most solitary.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There are female women, and there are male women.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don’t scruple freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and make late blither.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of good-nature. The goodness goes; the sacrifice sticks.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)