William R. Alger Quotes
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After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
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Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
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A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.