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Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He alone is a man who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He is incapable of a truly good action who knows not the pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter is poised between impertinence and folly.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
She neglects her heart who studies her glass.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A good proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature’s tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)