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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)
A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A fop of fashion is the mercer’s friend, the tailor’s fool, and his own foe.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Actions, looks, words, steps from the alphabet by which you may spell characters.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
As your enemies and your friends, so are you.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Dread more the blunderer’s friendship than the calumniator’s enmity.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He alone has energy that cannot be deprived of it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)