William R. Alger Quotes
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
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I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
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True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
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Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.
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Keep your working power at its maximum.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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Polite beggary is too common.
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God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
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Words of love are works of love.
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.