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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We forgive too little, forget too much.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas’ thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Everybody has enemies. To have an enemy is quite another thing. One must be somebody in order to have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
I love victory, but I love not triumph.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. We owe our superfluity, and to be happy in the performance of our duty we must exceed it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There are two ways of attaining an important end—force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Conscience is, at once, the sweetest and most troublesome of guests. It is the voice which demanded Abel of his brother, or that celestial harmony which vibrated in the ears of the martyrs, and soothed their sufferings.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all; as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse. It begins all. So they say of death, “It is the end of all things.” Yes, just as much as marriage.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
God has prohibited despair.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)