“Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 60
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“'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”
“When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.”
“The heart, in spite of the understanding, will always say too much.”
“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!”
“Man is false to himself and betrays his own succours ten times where nature does it once.”
“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.”
“Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.”
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
“I beleave in the universal salvashun ov men, but I want tew pick the men.”
“Prejudice iz a hous plant which iz very apt tew wither if yu take it out doors amungst pholks.”
“Them folks who are sudden, aint apt tew be solid; lively streams are alwus shallow.”
“Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.”
“Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.”
“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
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