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Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Violence in the voice is often only the death-rattle of reason in the throat.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for a want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye for our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)