Wisdom Quotes · Page 76
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“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”
“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”
“There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.”
“Next to a sum of money down, a grievance is the best thing you can have.”
“Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre.”
“Courtesy should have kept him silent, even if neither charity nor modesty could do so.”
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
“There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”
“It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.”
“One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things.”
“No more; where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise.”
“Each in his narrow cell forever laid, / The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
“Can storied urn, or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?”
“Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul.”
“Far from the sun and summer-gale, / In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid.”
“He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.”
“What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, / And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.”
“Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, / Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!”
“Telephones are like women. No one really knows anything about them.”
“Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.”
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